with the city. the pay increase being proposed include restoring the 10 percent pay cuts they accepted to help limit layoffs during record budget deficits. leaders indicated they would support modest raises but the police officers association argues that bigger raises are needed to keep officers from leaving the department. the union has called for opening negotiations to the public. >> the boy scouts of america board could vote whether to lit a long-term policy that excludes gay members and leaders. the executive board is wrapping up three days of meetings today at the headquarters in texas. the proposal would allow individual scout troops to decide how they want to address the issue, a conservative group in texas organized a prayer vigil this morning, and the organization is expected to issue a statement either way. >> the nasdaq could pay millions over the social media company facebook's botched initial public offering. the "wall street journal" reports that nasdaq is in talks with the government to pay $5 million in penalties which is only 1 percent of the money lost by br

>>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> it was anything but a normal monday in vatican city. the pope surprised everyone by doing something that hasn't been done in hundreds of years. >> tonight the deep south still reeling from tornadoes and that weather system may not be over yet. >> and three people are dead after a courthouse shooting in delaware. an eyewitness describes running for his life coming up. >>> we start off with the surprising resignation of pope benedict xvi. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm brian bolter. >> i'm shawn yancy. it's the announcement that stunned virtually everyone. the pope will step down the end of this month. fox 5's will thomas is in the newsroom with the reason behind the move and how the church plans to fill one of the most prestigeous jobs in the world. >> the reason, the pop says he's physically and mental -- the pope says he's physically and mentally not up to it. cardinal joe george ratzinger with the -- cardinal george ratzinger and by all counts pope benedict actually a shy man who loves reading and writing books more than greeting crowds. >

the city you are charged with protecting. and you want us to buy liability insurance? why don't you just focus on solving your own problems? i have been a prosecutor, a judge and an elected d.a. let me give you a few tips. get yourself some confidential informants, undercover officers, search warrants, surveillance, wiretaps, probable cause and start making some arrests and make sure that your cops charge those crimes which require mandatory incarceration and make sure that the states attorney's office prosecutes those arrests and the judges follow the law and send them to jail. now, do you want to redefine your definition of corrupt? you know, my mom always told me better to remain silent and thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. didn't your mother ever tell you that? joining me now is south carolina man jeff duncan and steven halbrook. congressman duncan you have been in politics for awhile. you have gotten high ratings from the nra. does that make you corrupt? >> no. makes me a believer in the second amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms. i

is not the story, and your city, and no. you have a much more severe segregation. lou: with 23 million unemployed looking for work, with comprehenve immigration reform to take guns away from people, and assault on the a second amendment for what the president is trying to do. >> a classic case of a group of people who make the rules to have no bad experiences. it means the availability of nannies, a good yard workers negative consequences? nothing. with gun-control how many members of upper-class care about guns? they don't own them or go hunting, not civil war reactors, it does not touch a single solitary nerve. lou: but they have bodyguards they don't rely upon themselves. >> it is really, really low. lou: rate cannot recommend the book to highly. thank you. it is available on-line in book stores no. -- now. the host of justice of long our guests tomorrow. go to lou@loudobbs.com for e-mail and twittered and e-mail andthe boys usend capital one venture miles for their annual football trip. that's double miles you can actually use. tragically, their ddy got sacked by blackouts.

from farms to cities and what happens when you go from a farm to a city in the year 2012 and don't have a high school diploma or limited skills and a another sense, you have a really hard time, the united states is a country which 30% of the adult population has a college education and 10% of repay a high school diploma and there's a group in the middle. when you look at wages which alex referenced before the important thing to keep in mind of wages is it is all about commentary, good for high school -- high skilled workers, if i am a high skilled worker on want to order more take out because i want to work longer hours and make more money. that is why cities like washington d.c. works. my parents came to this country and washing dishes and driving every cabs and stuff like that, works and makes sense. there are two different dynamics at play. when looking at high skilled workers there are increasing returns to the concentration of skill. there's a great book called the new geography of jobs. what he is looking at is there has been a big divergence in america between the d.c. metro

said, * that when you go into city hall, you walk up the central staircase. you don't walk on one of the side staircases because for our community, it is so important for us to walk up that central staircase and for us to be in the middle of everything and for everyone to know that we are here. and all these years later, we've made a lot of strides in the lgbt community, but we still have so much work to do around hiv issues, around our youth, around discrimination, around transinclusion, and all the things that we know that harvey had he been here today would still be working on and leading on. and, so, we have to keep doing our work. and frankly, we can't take for granted that queer people are going to keep getting elected to office if we don't work on that and focus on that, we'll quickly slide back. so, we're here today to remember and also to look forward. so, it is my great honor to turn the mic over to our mistress of ceremonies, one of harvey's legislative aides and now the director of emergency management in san francisco and one of my absolute favorite people in city hal

school in new york city were none of the students are native english speakers. ms. houser tells the story of a student who escaped nepal and attended the international high school. >> so many advocates have amazing stories and the one i wanted to read is about a tibetan boy who left tibet as a little boy, escaped by hiding in a suitcase to travel to the border of nepal and so he and i worked pretty hard on his story to get all the facts straight. the man said motioning at a small suitcase on the ground. it was the fall of 2003, two years before a new one would arrive in international and they're standing on a street. he looked at the man in back of the suitcase. the man was his father's friend, a farmer with a faith filled with worry. black nylon the plastic handlebar, rubber wheels. noong had never touched a suitcase before and inspected it closely. there was chinese flattering on it he could not read. the main compartment was only about two by three feet, the size of a child's coffin. noong was small for 11, but he wasn't that small. he got the firmware must be joking. the black s

most places so how do we deal with that? how do we deal with the fact that in most cities and urban areas, it's not even a possibility. it's not even feasible anymore. >> host: is their popular opinion based on this sort of legal term we have seen now? >> guest: legally, it's very hard. i write about the school choice movement and i really think that is got into the consciousness of the american public and people really feel like they deserve the right to have a choice of schools. so i think turning around and saying okay, let's implement this busing program and you have to send your kids here, don't know if it's politically feasible that way and it's a controlled choice. it's a choice program but the choices are managed. so i think that has -- just in terms of where people live i think. you have had cities and some schools are becoming -- in the suburbs are becoming more diverse and in the inner cities you have the white middle-class moving back in in washington d.c. and new york so there are some opportunities. but i don't think forced busing, it's not going to be at. >> host: i'm

area made up of 101 city with mayor who have to answer to the voters. but silicon valley more of a renal until identity the bay area economic vitality becomes everyone's business. ceo of joint venture silicon valley is hopeful. >> economic is more powerful than politic. this is un finding and political forces may dividing forces but overwhelmed by the economic. i'm hopeful. >>reporter: russell also warns that come back in silicon valley could be separate if consumer confidence way or spend are silicon valley to off pace the recovery and rest of the state and the nation. in sap jose, david louie abc 7 news. >> very encouraging news. people want to work in silicon valley but not everyone wants to live there. they would rather commute from san francisco or east bay. live picture now on traffic along interstate 80 in the berkeley area. now that drive time adds up now a new study shows the bay area traffic is just as bad as that in los angeles. in fact there's only one other city where drivers have it worse than we do. but there is a silver lining to the all the frustration. more now fr

because, as an exception to the city's environmental clean air policy because we're public safety. so, you know, the need is great and i believe there is a recognition of that from the mayor's office. however, we're just hoping that we can push that priority this year. it is an unfunded liability. obviously we have a five-year replacement schedule that we're looking at implementing with the mayor's office. it's quite detailed, and it really articulates well our need for new cars. and i think if you talk to any of our officers, none of them would dispute that. and, so, i know that was pretty fast and furious, but you know, we're open for any questions now or later. >> great. you just heard dr. marshall, this has been an incredible presentation. thank you. it's right to the point. it has the exact numbers. it's excellent. so, thank you very much. with reference to the fleet, i see that, 350 of our cars are 12 years or older? >> that's correct. >> and the rule is were they nonemergency vehicles, we wouldn't be allowed to use them by the current code. so there is an exception in the c

. we have that next. the search if survivors and victims of a huge building explosion in mexico city. >> very excited today to welcome hollywood icon goldie hawn and take everyone to a happy place, a show about reducing stress in our lives. she has a fantastic ten-minute plan to find a calm place in our day. and we learn simple techniques on meditation. >> you have to love some of the buildings in downtown san francisco with the lights red and gold rimming the buildings rooting on our 49ers as they take on the ravens in super bowl xlvii on sunday. go, niners. we have very nice weather with our meteorologist, mike nicco, will talk about. authorities look for more possible survivors of a large explosion in mexico city. at least 14 people were killed and another 100 hurt after a blast ripped through the part of the headquarters of mexico's state-owned oil company yesterday. it appears the explosion took place in the basement of an administration building that is next to the 52-story office tower. the smoke could be seen rising over mexico city's skyline. >> super bowl sunday, grammy and

, and sent people running for cover. parts of the meteor fell on the city of chelyabinsk-- population over a million-- about a thousand miles due west of moscow on the edge of the ural mountains. the strike shocked and stunned the world. more than 1,000 people were injured. paul davies of independent television news begins our coverage. >> rorter: emerging from the russian sky, a giant ball of flame, a meteorite providing a spectacular show until it suddenly explodes 30 miles above the earth. the city of chelyabinsk was unlucky to be beneath the meteorites flight path and was showered with debris dropping from the sky. thousands of windows were smashed, shocked workers evacuated their offices. this school class is about to be interrupted by the shock wave. here the windows come crashing in, and a national judo squad runs for cover. canadian ice hockey star michael garnett plays for the chelyabinsk team and lives in the city. i was awakened by this loud bang, crash and shaking in my apartment that, you know, literally shook me out of bed. i kind of gathered myself and looked out the wi

the peninsula these days and i see a lot of people wanting to be in the city versus traditionally in silicon valley. >> cal train says it's seen a steady increase in ridership. there are now more riders in its history and realtors say they see a trend, tech workers choose choosing san francisco. over the selling point. >> noe valley because it's towards southern part of the city and easier commute to get on to the freeways but you can see buttses on union street waiting to pick people up. >> the transportation commission here says we're never going to defeat congestion but we can manage witness good planning and right projects well. don't have, perhaps ideal deal but a reasonable speed on the roads. police ride id fid and released photos of a 13-year-old found murdered in fairfield. january yell conway allen found friday morning. they released this surveillance photo from when she was last seen thursday afternoon. investigators from fairfield çc.pkq been working on the case nonstop since conway-allen's body was found. they're asking anyone who may have seen this girl just before

city. this is not the kind of correspondence that one deletes because it is of no value as a record. one deletes this information to conceal what it contains. mr. wooding said that there is a bigger issue here. the bigger issue is one of ethics. now, this matter can be reduced and narrowed down to a technical, legal point. that will make it much easier to dismiss this case as virtually every other sunshine case has been dismissed. but, this is an ethics commission. it would be nice if there were a professional emphasis here. even so there isn't. it would be good if once in a while the ethical dimension of the behaviors that you are hearing about would be considered rather than just be loop holes and technicalities of the law, thank you very much. >> thank you, very much. >> it looks like people are lining up. >> i am sorry. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is nancy wo rkul >> mr. ginsberg is guilty of willful disobedience of the sunshine ordinance, he is a attorney and he knows not to use a smoking gun at a computing, not only he is adept, he has motive for his actions. he ab

economically free place on earth based on takes in free markets ideas the new city will charge no taxes on salary or love hong kong is honduras developer mark strong inspiration the city had african style poverty he says now is free market philosophy makes it the brute just place on a road block with plans to bring that to the states detroit's about to be america's biggest city to go bust but his project makes the island of oil between detroit and the canadian border a tax haven creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs residents strongly support the plan road could you break down the concept for us that there would be no cherrix on anything we watching her so we would not have tax and labor income and investment income or and build it you know nice buildings well urge them to work doing urgent invest you know why choose detroit detroit. will have an emergency manager within the next few weeks probably by the end of march and that means it will be taken over by the states and then the emergency manager will then make a decision whether to declare bankruptcy in night change fifty detroit h

fall ever in amarillo. it happens now and then, kansas city has flight delays. what is going on in the west coast, high pressure is deflecting everything to the north, 30s and 40s will give way to mid-60s for some, here is sal. >>> we have a hit-and-run and actually we will start with this first. i'm sorry this is northbound 880 in oakland there is an injury accident some somewhere embarcadero and broadway and you can see the backup is already building here in oakland northbound. this is a big problem for the nimitz freeway northbound and traffic is building. now let's talk about the hit- and-run in san jose, somebody died as a result of being hit by a car and the car sped away and police are not releasing any details except that it was a dark car they are looking for and we will bring you the latest as soon as they are set up and ready to go. >>> we have developing news from oakland, the fbi is busy helping police in a major homicide investigation. they are questioning for than a dozen suspects with a standoff that ended hours ago. it started yesterday afternoon. s.w.a.t. teams surrou

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have generated more revenue for the city. the council competitiveness economy will take over changes on friday. >>> and a teenager was killed and three others injured at last month's event and city leaders are roning by banning drinking in the streets. in oakland's uptown district they say the event is getting too big and poses a security risk. >>> and super sunday is reaching out to potential college students at bay area church this is morning. an annual tradition that has cal state students talking about the importance of earning an0. they will get more information on what is like on campus including a virtual tour of the website. >>> and gas prices around the bay area and across the country are not expected to go down any time soon. >> right now the average price for a gallon of regular nationwide is $3.67, an increase of $0.12 in the past week. here in california we are paying much more, an average of $4.13. a month ago it was almost $0.50 cheaper. believe it or not we are under the state average. in the bay area we are paying $4.06 a gallon. prices are expected to go up as refin

the city that we are the world passage, and rightly so. we are doing things that no other city is doing to lead the way. not just for economic recovery but job creation. showing the way. and our mission bay and biotech, the latest discovers and drugs, the cure of cancer with residents of san francisco working there. we host the biggest and best conventions in the world to bring people together in this great city to do things that collaborate with each other. whether it's business or medicine or research. we have some of the best research and diversity here that are anchoring the discovery. at the same time we host some of the best sports teams in the world. and you know that we are winning the world series and collaborative teamwork that we are doing. or trying to make five more yards in some super bowl. this is a world-class city. and because it is, we require a world-class police department. and by golly, with chief suhr and the commission, we have it with you, the men and women of the police department. and i can vouch with this, having hatraveled as mayor brow and witnessing a

to daly city. the town of his birth. all the regular customers, the soft bellied ones and the lean ones the hard face cabdrivers, the triose know his face. his faded blue sweater and his profile like [inaudible]. his cow lick in black mop of hair. [inaudible] johnitto should be only asleep. you know the place the apartment building on 17th street through the lobby door with busted lock under the sign that says no loitering past the mildew that curdled your brain up 3riccety stairs belly up below the broken window. in bed the mattress on the floor he shares with his older sisters johnitto will dreechl a baseball glove or the perfect tail for a kite. [inaudible] 24th street with the one seed always frozen near the bottom. but the family needs more than dreams that's why my mom, sisters travelled by bus pulled by something stronger than destiny to this 2 room battleground of survival. this minute as he treads mission mama in the apartment on a sewing machine, zig-zagy threads fine as spider webs running down pants late into the appeal yellow hours of her seemingly endless nights. the

. of course this is a political town. this is the capitol city and has been the seat of government since the founding 403 years ago. and so the exercise of political power and the development of public policy is another theme. the history of santa fe is distinctive. for one thing, santa fe became a u.s. territory in 1848. and it was a territory for a very long time. the country and washington were reluctant to make santa fe a state. that eventually happened in 1912. new mexico existed as a territory for so long, in someso many ways doesn't seem to fit the rest of the country. and in fact, santa fe proudly, for a long, long time, has described itself as the city different. santa fe was -- and new mexico were explored by the spanish, coming from the south to the north. not from anglos coming from the east to the west. that's one difference. this community that's closely tied to the catholic church, priests accompanied spanish settlers on their way north and establishment of the church and establishment of the community of santa fe are inseparable. of course, this is-was a spanish spe

arms. valerie, count on your attorney, valerie, good luck with salary. valerie, count on the city and a good budget, valerie, count on your attorney, valerie, good luck with your salary. valerie, count on the city and give it to this one, please. some budgets may be larger and some budgets may be small. and remember this one, go ask alice, i think she will know, when budget and proportions are getting small and we're going to fix it up now and you are going to make it all -- go ask alice and we're going to win . i have been done since you will be gone, and i hope don't know what went wrong. say it isn't true and don't it make your budget brown eyes -- and don't it make your budget brown eyes, don't it make your budget brown eyes blue, bring it back to you, please. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> anne lehman, director of policy at the department of status of women. i am less than halftime position and i having there for almost 20 years. i am here to tell you that you get a lot of bang for your buck when you have staff at department. we are a very small staff, but we're a very cr

that the entire united states can look to and say, that's what we need to do to save our city hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption a year and set an example to everybody of how to save energy, to be green, to be sustainable, to be responsible. the city is leading the way. >> it will be immediately recognizable and iconic from various parts of the city or even if you see a picture. that's the sfpuc building. it's a wonderful building. ♪ ♪ ♪ of life. in the name of god the father, amen. >> thank you. now i would like you to welcome the mayor of san francisco, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, good afternoon, everybody. it's my pleasure to be here to join former mayor willie brown, and supervisor scott wiener and david campos, and the commission of the police department, and friends and staff and friends and family here to witness the promotion of 56 officers of our police department. you know many of you have heard me say in the city that we are the world passage, and rightly so. we are doing things that no other city is doing to lead the way. not just for eco

and the city of san francisco and has pretty much throughout the entire careers of everybody that's standing here. >> reporter: a fresh look at the crime led to the search of jackson's old home where jackson and his roommate lived just blocks away from where kevin collins disappeared in 1984. jackson was a suspect from the start because thee years earlier, he spent six months in jail for lewd acts on a 7-year-old. >> he had a dog similar to the dog that the suspects were seen to have. >> reporter: still at the time, police came up short. >> he was detained, interviewed, allowed a search of the same house we just did the search warrant on, and a photo spread was shown to the two witnesses that described the suspect with the large black dog, and they weren't able to pick him out of the family code spread. >> reporter: what police didn't know is that jackson was also wanted in canada under another name. >> for a 1973 incident where he allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted two juveniles. he was never apprehended because of the multiple identities he used. >> reporter: police are as

there were people trapped underneath the rubble. both the president and the mayor of mexico city have visited the scene. the mexican capital is used to experiencing earthquakes. the authorities appear well prepared for search and rescue work. sniffer dogs are being used to look for survivors. so far, though, the authorities have remained tight-lipped about the cause of the blast. local media are reporting that it might have been caused by an electrical fault or gas leak in an adjacent building but there's no confirmation nor denial of that. behind this police cordon, the rescue operation is continuing and preparing to carry on throughout the night. still on the scene here, there are family members of missing workers desperately waiting for news of their loved ones. and either way, this is the worst explosion in mexico city for almost 30 years. will grant, bbc news, mexico. >> now to the wise-cracking former mayor of new york who was as colorful and as exuberant as his city. ed koch was known for speaking his mind and taking on his critics. after a decade of leading the big apple in th

statistics on your own city's criminal justice numbers. try as we might, six people, six people gave us the runaround this week from the state's attorney's office and the clerk's office saying you don't keep statistics on murder arrests and gun crimes. i'll bet you don't. hell, it would only make you look like the hypocrit that you are. but it is not just me. even the chicago justice project can't get this information from you. we have no idea how many of the arrests for murders actually result in convictions because the political will to collect this data has been lacking within the cook county states attorney's office. those are their words. no surprise there. but how dare you pontificate from your perch in the undisputed murder capital of america and mali it gn legal gun other thans as agents of the political corruption when you can't even control the flow of illegal guns in the city you are charged with protecting. and you want us to buy liability insurance? why don't you just focus on solving your own problems? i have been a prosecutor, a judge and an elected d.a. let me give you a few

me apparently told the city attorney's office acting in the capacity as supervisor of records that the documents did not exist. i learned this from an e-mail from dca justin who stated in part i understand from an... i understand this from an e-mail from i am sorry. i understand further that you had a discussion with inspector miranda and that he informed you that he has no additional records in the file. - >> that petition to supervisor the records has been reopened. it is now being reevaluated by the city attorney's office. inspector miranda lied to me and i believe that he made false representations to the deputy city attorney when she was investigating the existence of the documents telling her that they did not exist, and in may a month later we got confirmation that yes there were documents but they were withholding them and they were the law that they were withholding them under. to deny that something exists, when you could have just said, we are going to withhold them based on the law is wrong. . >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> high name is paulette brown and as you know

city in the housing projects in the poor neighborhoods in the city so it was something i had thought about actively since i was a little kid and so when it came into the supreme court i was interested in following that >> host: talking about the personal pieces i like to ask people their personal connection in the story when we get into the meat of it did you have a particularly stance on bus segregation? >> guest: i think they don't think about it and looking back to when i was looking at the reaction from the kids in the 70's when they started busting a lot of the kids would say i like it at this school. they didn't think about it but as i got older i started to think about not only going to schools and being surrounded by poverty that i didn't see in my neighborhood in the suburbs, but you know, at the same time in the schools that i had attended there was tracking so you have the regular program and in the advanced program they are close race on the class lines and so as a kid you absorb that and start to think about it and i remember being in high school one of the only

. tonight we look back on the life of ed koch and his lasting impact on new york city. in mexico city, authorities are promising a farrer investigation after 32 people were killed in a blast at mexico's state-owned oil company. >> the blast took place at the worst possible moment. in the middle of the afternoon, just as shifts were changing. workers at the state-run energy giant who were in the lobby were caught up in the explosion whicher to through the ground floor -- which tore through the ground floor. emergency services were quickly on the scene and the red cross attended to many of the injured -- injured outside the building. others were taken to nearby hospitals. as the building was evacuated, it soon became clear that the blast had caused significant loss of life and damage. >> we saw the explosion and all the windows in the tower came down. it was very strong. >> we evacuated the tower and i was trapped in the elevator and that scared me. >> large numbers of troops and police have been deployed to help with the rescue operation. the authorities confirmed there were people tra

crowds on the streets and in parts of the city. yet a lot of the large events and special events at hotels were at half capacity or slightly above half capacity. so which is unique, this is or has not happened in quite a long time to be quite honest. one, particular hotel, generally pulled in around 16 to 1800 people and only pulls in about 800 people. other hotels pulls in, you know, 1,000 only pulled in 400. whether it was the weather, or the economy or what have you, we definitely saw the decrease in payed venues and their crowds. the crowd out on the street was as big as it has been in the past years and perhaps even slightly bigger, but definitely the industry suffered slightly this year. i, again, whether it be weather or the economy and i am not sure. over all, new year's eve went over well and we did not have any major incidents and minor incidents here and there and some violence, but again, nothing that we have seen in the past years, so that is the very good news. i worked that evening with both members of sfpd and hitting a lot of different venue and we were able to cove

to get less money back this tax season, if you have outstanding debts in the city. starting this year, dc's office of tax and revenue will intercept tax refunds to pay outstanding parking tickets, red light camera tickets and unpaid child support. >>> number two, you'll want good food for great prices? well, bethesda chevy chase restaurant week continues through sunday. make reservations right now. participating restaurants will offer two or three-course lunches for $12 or $16 and three-course dinner for $33. >>> and number 1 tonight, the washington post may sell its downtown het quarters building. the post told staffers this morning she says the company hasn't decided where or when it might move, but the company is looking for more modern, bright, open and efficient buildings. brian, that's tonight's fox 5 top five. . >>> cruising into the weekend, bundle up? >> yeah, it's the first week of february. listen, it's supposed to be cold, right? we're right in the middle of winter here. temperatures this weekend, i've been saying this, listen, today was supercold. we did have a high

those should be subject to be combined but born and raised in the city i know what other schools look like. since the december 2012 fire our kids are force the to eat the lunches outside on the black top and it was a cold winterer and i felt for my kids when they asked for a hot lunch because it was cold outside and even after the remodel is done after the fire we will still only have one cafeteria to share and right now we already have -- we already have like -- the younger kids go at another time and the older kids go at another time but to add 300 kids to schedule even just to have lunch i don't see -- i don't want my kids eating lunch at 10:00 a.m. in the morning, and i was present when representatives from our school spoke before you at the january 8 meeting, and what really stood out in my mind there were accolades and celebrations for one of our public emersion schools and getsing the recognition they so deserve for academic achievements but through it all all i could think of all our kids want is the opportunity to growth and rise and achieve excellence at one location and we

on the seceiling that looks like a map of latin america. this is not mexico city where indian families wrapped in newspapers huddel uppered the monument of the revolution. this is not where girls peddle chicklets on street corners no this is lamission. land of palm trees and skyscrapers where there is dollars enough for cell phones, sports cars and [inaudible] by the trunk full. where a suitcase of cocaine is as easy to buy as a broken stemmed rose from his white bucket. how much for that hand full of rose buds? for fingers go up. he makes change for a 20, returns clefrjed winched with b. you tip him a couple of dollars, so what. every love struck couple stairing into each other's eyes. every loner with a half empty beer even a waitress after a shift receives a visit from john nitto. he returns to the faces above the steaming plates before he's out into the neon lit street leaving behind a trail of rose petals bark as sacrificial hearts. thank you. [applause]. >> whenever i had writer's block i do research so i thought i would redo a section which started as writer's block and